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Scientists believe they have discovered the remains of Britain's oldest-known northerner in a cave in Cumbria. Analysis of a leg bone fragment unearthed from a cave in Cumbria suggests it is more than 10,000 years old, making it the earliest human bone from northern Britain on record...

Over 200 people have been injured in a massive pile-up which lasted ten minutes and involved a hundred vehicles. The incident happened at 7:15am on the New Sheppey Crossing bridge connecting the Isle of Sheppey with mainland Kent. The accident occurred in thick fog with some witnesses saying...

A medal awarded to a dog who extinguished an incendiary bomb by urinating on it during the Blitz has been discovered in a house clearance. Juliana the Great Dane leapt into action after the device fell through the roof of her owner’s house in 1941. It is thought she put out the flame on...

King Richard III, whose remains were found last year under a car park in Leicester, suffered from roundworm, analysis has revealed. Scientists found roundworm eggs in a soil sample taken from the pelvis of the skeleton of the king, which was discovered last year by archaeologists at the...

By Hugo Duncan 3 September 2013 Daily Mail Britain will have the best-performing major economy in the developed world for the rest of the year, an international watchdog said yesterday. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said it expects growth of more than 0.9 per...

On 9th October 2012, 16-year-old Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban whilst returning home on a school bus for championing women's rights and for promoting education for girls. She was flown to Britain to be treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Britain's...

London has been voted the top city in Europe and second only to New York in the world by people in 24 countries. London and New York were the only two out of 48 cities to make the top five in each of the categories in the survey. Britain was also voted the third-best country in the world in...

Archaeological dig begins to unearth scale model of one of World War One's bloodiest battlefields created by German prisoners to help train British troops Model was built as a training aid for soldiers and in recognition of the fallen Battle of Messines took place around the Belgian...

And just think, there are numpties out there who actually believe it.

In September 1513 Scotland invaded England and declared war on her to honour the Auld Alliance with France by diverting Henry VIII's English troops from their campaign against the French king Louis XII. Henry VIII had also opened old wounds by claiming to be the overlord of Scotland which...

This collection of eerie photos shows London in the grip of fog and smog in the early 20th Century. In the early decades of the 20th Century London was the world's biggest and richest city, the capital of a country that was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and (the whole of) Ireland...

Amateur treasure hunter unearths haul of Roman coins with £300 metal detector he bought off a friend Dorset fisherman Jason Hemmings, 41, makes stunning find in field Fifteen-coin find hailed by British Museum as 'very exciting discovery' It is believed a soldier dropped the money about...

A council spent thousands of taxpayers' money building a gate to stop gippos getting into a park - then opened it for Health and Safety reasons, allowing the gippos to enter, because they were concerned that the gippos would injure themselves when attempting to get through illegally. It...

That's nothing. I saw a guy on the telly a week and a half ago on the patriotic BBC Saturday night gameshow I Love My Country who made three whole pizzas in 32 seconds.

An amateur photographer believes he may have photographed Nessie, the world's most famous cryptid. The image was taken by David Elder at Fort Augustus, at the south-west end of the 23-mile-long body of water in northern Scotland. It shows a long bow wave apparently caused by some sort of...

A woman was taken to hospital with two broken legs after becoming trapped under a three-tonne horse-drawn tram. The 46-year-old was dragged under the 20ft-long tram by her legs after the horse bolted along Middleton Railway, in Britain's third city Leeds, at around 3pm yesterday. Woman...

A new book about the UK's most bizarre surnames has shown that there are Britons going by the name of Crakpot, Halfenaked, Swetinbedde, Crapper and Scrapetrough. Is your name Crakpot, Halfenaked or Swetinbedde? New book reveals the UK’s most bizarre surnames Other amusing examples include...

Further proof, if any were needed, that Britain's ruling crime-loving Liberal Establishment favours the perpetrators of crime over the victims of crime: A businessman who confronted a burglar raiding his premises appeared in court yesterday accused of attacking him. Andrew Woodhouse, 43...

A British soldier has become the first foreigner to receive a Danish bravery award. The soldier was given the award for trying to save the life of a Danish soldier in Afghanistan. Explosives expert Andy Peat of 33 EOD Regiment Royal Logistic Corps went to the aid of Oversergeant Rene Brink...

Four oil workers were killed last night when the Super Puma helicopter they were travelling in ditched into the North Sea off Fitful Head in the far south of the Shetland Islands, in the very far north of the UK. The Super Puma L2 aircraft went down in adverse weather conditions, including...